Interior and closet designers say glass sneaker displays with lighting from below and sunglass drawers are also popular features.
Pittsburgh-based architect Lewko Korzeniwsky recently finished turning the traditional, Colonial-style floor plan of an old 4, 600-square-foot French Normandy mansion into an open, contemporary interior, reducing the number of bedrooms to four from six and introducing floor-to-ceiling glass windows and recessed lighting.
The simple paneling behind, frameless glass enclosure and backlit LED lighting make a statement without all the pretense and formality of a traditional cellar.
Interiors are a smart combination of old and new maintaining many of the original features, such as marble staircases and decorative murals, but adding modern touches like new lighting, a glass-enclosed swimming pool and Dstrikt, a casual street-level restaurant.
Standard green features in each home include LED lighting, recycled glass countertops, a high-efficiency water heater, water-conserving fixtures including dual-flush toilets, FSC-certified bamboo flooring, EnergyStar appliances, zero-VOC paints, finishes, and adhesives, a whole-house ventilation system, low-E windows, high levels of insulation, a fully recyclable, heat-deflecting cool roof, exterior wood siding and decking made from FSC-certified cedar, and much more.
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Celebrations in Manchester include a huge fireworks display at Castlefield, while up to 10, 000 people will watch a parade and the lighting of a beacon at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland.
About 93 percent of 3, 040 large U.S. hospitals used one or more day lighting or lighting conservation features, including tinted window glass (80 percent), reflective window glass (39 percent), external overhangs or awnings (47 percent), skylights or atriums designed to provide light (57 percent), automatic controls or sensors that increase or reduce lighting in response to the level of natural light (14 percent), and occupancy sensors that reduce lighting when rooms are unoccupied (46 percent).
Interiors were characterized by the economical and innovative use of standard industrial products like aluminum pipe, factory lighting, and warehouse shelving with chemical and pharmaceutical glass and ceramic accessories. (You wouldn't want what your parents liked anyway.) The machine aesthetic of modernism was remade into an industrial arte povera of "found" components for the look that became known and celebrated as High Tech.
Richardson expects that transparent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) will be embedded in structural glass, so that flat clear panels will provide a plethora of lighting options.
Measuring a zaftig 65, 000 square feet, it's a multilevel facility with 26 treatment rooms, locally made stained-glass windows, intricately carved mesquite desks, tables and benches, and gentle Paul Ferrante lighting.
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